History of the Jews in Russia
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Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.
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See also
- Israel–Russia relations
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Jewish history and Jewish diaspora
- Antisemitism in Imperial Russia
- Antisemitism in Russia
- Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
- History of antisemitism
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
- History of the Jews in Belarus
- History of the Jews in Bessarabia
- History of the Jews in Latvia
- History of the Jews in Lithuania
- History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia
- History of the Jews in Poland
- Jewish Cossacks
- Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Lithuanian Jews – Galician Jews – Georgian Jews – Bukharan Jews – Mountain Jews
- Sect of Skhariya the Jew
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together
- Timeline of Jewish History
- World Jewish Congress
- Regional history
- List of Jews from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
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